Section 1. Introduction -- Nursing's history of advocacy and action -- Policy and politics explained -- A policy toolkit for healthcare providers and activists -- Section 2. Population Health -- Population health care: access, cost, and quality -- Global health: a vision for action -- Mental and behavioral health -- Section 3. Affordable Care Act : from enactment to sustainability -- Affordable Care Act (ACA) reframed and uncertain -- Healthcare quality -- Section 4. Health financing: payers, markets, and models -- Healthcare costs: follow the money -- Private health insurance market -- Medicare: protector to innovator -- Medicaid and the financing of care for vulnerable populations: a story of misconceptions -- Innovation for the delivery system of the future: medical homes, accountable care organizations and bundled payment initiatives -- Section 5. Health care and provider and care delivery -- Hospitals: consolidation and compression -- Enhanced primary care roles for nurses and other professionals -- Physicians: it is increasingly about the team -- Health information technology and the intersection of health policy -- Political power of nurses: harnessing our values and voices.
Summary:
"Policy and Politics for Nurses and Other Health Professionals, Third Edition focuses on the idea that all healthcare providers require a fundamental understanding of the healthcare system including but not limited to knowledge required to practice their discipline. The text discusses how healthcare professionals must also prepare themselves to engage in the economic, political, and policy dimensions of health care.The Third Edition offers a nursing focus with an interdisciplinary approach intertwined to create an understanding of healthcare practice and policy. The text is enriched through the contributions from nurses and other health professionals including activists, politicians, and economists who comprehend the forces of health care in America and their impact on the everyday provider"--Provided by publisher.
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